I"ve found and a workaround for this bug, refer below. It would still be good to properly triage and fix this bug, though, as the system is unusable without this resolution.
I noticed that the firmware was not auto-installed for my Hauppauge WinTV-HVR4000(Lite) DVB-S/S2 [card=69,autodetected], and the system was permanently reporting that it could not find the firmware for this card, which was putting a load on the system, although it was still usable. In a failsafe session, in whiche the system does not freeze, I proceeded to install the firmware for the card, which is in the package linux- firmware-nonfree (sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree), and then logged out and back into a normal desktop session. As a positive side effect, the system no longer spawns the thousands of jockey-gtk processes and no longer freezes. So, this bug only seems to be visible when firmware is missing from the system. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/706684 Title: jockey freezes system with hundreds of jockey-gtk processes -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
